Welcome back to Bat Chat! In Detective Comics #1,040, Bruce Wayne turns himself in to the GCPD after the events of the previous arc while Mr. Worth and Penguin plot their revenge as written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. In the backup to the…
It’s catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main-continuity Bat titles dropping, we’ll be discussing three out-of-continuity digital first tales: two released physically in the past couple weeks, and one that is still digital for a couple more months. The inaugural arc of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight…
It’s another busy Bat week, with a full slate of titles! In Detective Comics #1,039, many answers about Hue Vile come to light in both the main and backup stories, with the feature written by Mariko Tamaki; penciled by Viktor Bogdanovic; inked by Daniel Henriques, Norm Rapmund and Bogdanovic; colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered…
Haha — our favorite anthology series about clowns — ends with a story that began in our other favorite anthology series, Ice Cream Man, and it’s produced by the same creative team: written by W. Maxwell Prince, drawn by Martin Morazzo, colored by Chris O’Halloran and lettered by Good Old Neon. Content warning: This review…
Someone murdered Trigger Keaton, the world’s most famous TV action hero. But to be fair, everyone kinda hated him. Now the plot thickens, the sidekick numbers increase and the stuntman war escalates. Get ready for action in The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #2, written by Kyle Starks and drawn by Chris Schweizer with color…
It’s time to go hunting in Department of Truth #10 by writer James Tynion IV, artist Martin Simmonds, letterer Aditya Bidikar, designer Dylan Todd and editor Steve Foxe. Will Nevin: Forrest, let’s start with something that’s weird to me: How come I didn’t understand the series’ references to date regarding tulpas, considering that’s the central…
Welcome back to Bat Chat! This week, Batman faces off with Peacekeeper-01 while the Unsanity Collective prepares for war and the true extent of how far Simons Saint will go to ensure order in Gotham is revealed in Batman #110 with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by…
How can there be both too many comics and still not nearly enough? The idea of finding something new to read can seem daunting. If you’re looking to jump into a new book, the staff of ComicsXF can point you in the direction of some of our favorite recent releases and currently ongoing titles. Looking…
Welcome to a special fifth week BatChat. For those not deeply entrenched in comics distribution, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, shipping can get … weird. So this week there are no comics with Batman as a lead! What are we to do? Well, to start, we’ll look at last week’s digital release…
Hey. You. Yeah, you. Wanna become an expert in Supreme Court K-12 public school student speech jurisprudence? It’s fun and cool, and any ol’ idiot can write a dissertation on it. Better yet, until last week, it only required a working knowledge of four cases: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969): The…
Welcome back to BatChat! In Detective Comics #1,038, Batman must deal with being a fugitive in both his identities, as Mr. Worth goes on a rampage and Hue Vile’s plans begin to … come to fruition maybe, as written by Mariko Tamaki, penciled by Viktor Bogdanovic, inked by Daniel Henriques and Bogdanovic, colored by Jordie…
It’s the end for Harry and the brave, hopeless people trying to stop him. Or is it? Let’s carve into Maniac of New York #5 by writer Elliott Kalan, artist Andrea Mutti, letterer Taylor Esposito and publisher AfterShock. What’s a few chisel-chipped teeth, psychosis and forced labor between friends? Let’s find out in Bunny Mask…
More bombs fall, a handsome boy dies and a house and a plot of land try to get back to a time when the Russians weren’t pouring down death on America in Nuclear Family #5 by writer Stephanie Phillips, artist Tony Shasteen, colorist JD Mettler, letterer Troy Peteri and publisher AfterShock. Based on a short…
It’s catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main continuity Bat titles dropping, we’ll be discussing three out-of-continuity digital first tales: two released physically in the past couple weeks, and one that is still digital for a couple more months. The annual Gotham Dog Show has two special guest judges this year:…
Thanks to some shipping-related hijinks due to the holiday, and the fact that Matt insists on reading things physically, we skipped last week’s Bat Chat, so this week is a hat trick of the three main-continuity Bat books. Simon Saint’s plan becomes more clear and Harley makes a connection in Batman #109 with a lead…